Melodious Worldlines

           I want to start this series with a composer whose music is a burst of refreshment.  Born in the Bavarian town of Bayreuth (Yes, the one with the namesake festival celebrating Richard Wagner) in 1761 (records vary, but they place his birth year to be 1761 or 1765), Ludwig Abeille was a German composer of the classical era. His father was the patron of the Margraviate of Bavaria, and his mother was appointed in the town court; hence, given his family background, he was schooled in the now-destroyed Hohe Karlsschule (Karl's High School) from the age of eleven. Receiving his musical education under the renowned Italian composers Antonio Boroni (the same guy who first mentored Muzio Clementi!) and Mazzanti, he mastered his skills in the piano, organ and harpsichord. During his schooling, he was already supporting the Württemberg Court of Music in Stuttgart. In 1782, after leaving Karlsschule, he became a member of the private band as a Ma...

 Hello, and welcome to my blog! This post just explains what this series will be about and what you can expect as a visitor to this website.  Firstly, the title - Worldline is a concept in relativistic physics, which, simply put, is just the path traced by an object in both space and time. Surprisingly, a similar path analogy is also found in Robert Jordan's seminal high fantasy series The Wheel of Time, in which a human's lifespan is a thread weaved into a great pattern by the "wheel of time". So, by melodious worldlines, I will be focusing on the lives of people who contributed to various melodious structures in their lifetime.  Now, for the origin of this blog. A few months back, a close friend of mine suggested that I should write about my experience with Western classical music and share what I feel and interpret various compositions to be. Well, I started this blog with the same intention, but what happened was, due to my own worldline, I got a chance to attend ...